Concrete flooring is affordable and surprisingly versatile, even allowing you to customize it in many ways with DIY techniques. Although installing it in your bathroom could be a big mistake, the ...

Some floors simply beg to be looked down upon. Take painted floors, for example. Once associated with substandard housing and surfaces too bleak for any other finish, they’ve been rediscovered, ...

Hardwood floors are elegant but faux painting techniques can make them more glamorous with illusionary inlays of exotic woods, marble or brass. With oil-based paint, thinner, stencils and brushes, ...

Faux finishes have come a long way from pickling and sponge painting the walls. Offerings now range from imitation leather to Venetian plaster, and techniques such as glazing, faux marble, damask and ...

Faux wall covering let you break the limits of ordinary wall paint, creating surfaces that glisten in light or look like old-fashioned plaster, for example. And, increasingly, these kinds of jobs are ...